* Posts by Ivy366

3 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Sep 2021

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

Ivy366

"recently found that the European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 breaches data protection law for EU institutions and bodies."+

Yes, let's just switch over to App... no wait.. Goog... no wait...

"Hey, secretary, which European IT company actually delivers modern services?"

The answer is zero. EU regulators can cry all they want about "Microsoft not being GDPR compliant" but there's no real alternative alive today.

Germany sours on Microsoft again, launches antitrust review

Ivy366

Munich's linux experiment

They could start internally asking why Munich had to revert back from Linux back then. It wasn't because of non-competition.

Germany is free to use alternative services like Linux or Hertzner for hosting. The latter is the top attacked VM hoster on shodan.io and one "might wonder why".

Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report

Ivy366

Re: 106 million records

It being "in the cloud" isn't relevant. Misconfig is found in any datacenter and any app

The trend of oursourced IT though, however..